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Password for POP in Thunderbird

Asked by Torben Amtrup

My Thunderbird can send, but not receive mails. I can set my password for SMTP in the Properties pages; but there is no place to set password for POP. Or is there? What is a global password?

On the other hand my Evolution can receive but not send mails, probably because I can't set the correct port number for SMTP.

So I have to use two different programs for sending and receiving e-mails, and that is annoying!

Can anybody help me? please, thanks.

<email address hidden>

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

There is no global password or everybody would download everybody elses email. Think about it.

When pop is first used. You should see a dialogue like this:
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/its/uwelive/media/help/thunderbird-11.jpg

You should fill it in and click the box to make the OS remember the password.

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Torben Amtrup (torben-l) said : 		#2

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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Torben Amtrup (torben-l) said : 		#3

Actually I made a stupid mistake: I wrote my own name instead of my e-mail address in the User Name field. Not wise :-)